The sixth season of Lafayette’s Art Night Out is Friday from 4 to 9 p.m. at Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road. Artists booths, children’s activities, food trucks, a beer and wine garden and live music with headliner Raising Cain is included. cityoflafayette.com

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“The Western Museum of Mining and Industry: Past, Present, and Future” is the topic of a free program beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday by the Palmer Lake Historical Society at the Palmer Lake Town Hall, 28 Valley Crescent in Palmer Lake. Richard Sauers will share the history of the museum and upcoming programs. palmerdividehistory.org

Look, up in the hills! It’s Summerfest

Head to Evergreen’s Buchanan Park next weekend for Summerfest: A Community Festival offering music, arts and crafts, food and children’s activities July 20-21. Highlights include more than 100 artist booths offering ceramics, paintings, photography and more. There’s also Palette of Brews, a beer tasting with 16 Colorado microbrews. Vote for local performers competing in the Battle of the Bands and an Air Guitar Contest. Children will want to visit Cape City, with activities based on a superhero theme. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. July 20 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 21. Admission is $2 for adults, free for children. Details at evergreenarts.org

As a matter of ‘Fax . . .

H & E Furniture wants to bring a “little bit of Brooklyn to Colfax” with new storefront windows. As part of their FAX Partnership membership, the store’s owners are taking advantage of a facade grant-matching opportunity. Stop by Friday through July 21 for a Mid-Century Madness sale, with a 20 percent discount on all items selected from the theme room. H & E, at 5724 E. Colfax Ave., carries local art along with a variety of vintage, modern and retro furnishings and accessories. Across the street, the Phoenician Kabob has special deals from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the three-day sale for those who mention “H & E Mid-Century Madness.” thefaxdenver.com.

Felines take over Quebec Street

At the Dumb Friends League’s CatFest, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the league’s Quebec Street Shelter (2080 S. Quebec St.), frisky felines will graciously accept human adoration. You’ll see adoptable cats and kittens, a purebred cat exhibition, clicker-training demos and vendor booths with cat stuff. Also: live music and food trucks. Not only is admission free, but adoption fees are also waived for adult cats on Saturday and Sunday at both DFL shelters. If you adopt at CatFest, there’s a goody bag in it for you. ddfl.org/news

The nice thing about Dutch ovens is that their iron is of one weave, so to speak, with nothing but metal all around, over and above, whatever’s cooking in them. So hot coals on their noggins is a no-never-mind.

The annual hop harvest is just around the corner in Washington state’s Yakima Valley, the agricultural area where 75 percent of America’s hops are grown, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.